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Just wondering if it means a specific type or if its the trait a male passes on ?
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Ryan
beardeduro@yahoo.com
2.1 mali's Drakkin/Fina
2.1 Snow beardies soon to come

Het is short for heterozygous. It refers to the presence of two genes at the same loci on different chromosomes that relate to the same characteristic. Or in plain english a het animal is an animal that carries a gene for a particular recessive trait but does not display that trait.
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Paul Morlock
of CaptiveCreations and
Retail Sales Rep. for Sandfire Dragon Ranch

As a teacher I give you an A !
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Stacey

now ya have an A for you wonderful answer LOL

Eve

Oh Well !

when some humans carry the muscular dystrophy gene/trait? I know in humans, someone can carry it and not have it. But in order to have a child with MD, their partner also has to carry the gene/trait. (sorry, don't know if the right word is gene, trait, chromosome, etc.)

BTW, I don't know what "het" means? And does the gene show, then, when that dragon mates with another dragon with that recessive gene?
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1.0 Bearded Dragon - Telamon
0.1 House Cat - St. Stephen

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i still don't quite understand all of it b/t hets and hypos and all of that...i'm definitely not a breeder...

but my question sounds pretty dumb right now so you can disregard.
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1.0 Bearded Dragon - Telamon
0.1 House Cat - St. Stephen

1 Saltwater Aquarium
1 Freshwater Aquarium